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an occasional Portuguese bound for Delagoa Bay 
or Mozambique. 
When we first went aboard our party of four 
desired to secure a table by ourselves. We were un¬ 
successful, however, and found it shared by a 
peaceful old gentleman with whiskers. By cross¬ 
ing with gold the palm of the chief steward, the old 
gentleman was shifted to a seat on the first officer’s 
right. Later we discovered that he was Sir Thomas 
Scanlon, the first premier of South Africa, the man 
who gave Cecil Rhodes his start. 
There were many interesting elements which 
made the cruise of the Woermann unusual. Mr. 
Boyce and his party of six were on board and were 
on their way to photograph East Africa. They took 
moving pictures of the various deck sports, also 
a bird’s-eye picture of the ship, taken from a camera 
suspended by a number of box kites, and also gave 
two evenings of cinematograph entertainment. 
There were also poker games, bridge games, and 
other forms of seaside sports, all of which con¬ 
tributed to the gaiety of life in the Indian Ocean. 
In the evening one might have imagined oneself 
at a London music-hall, in the daytime at the Olym¬ 
pian games, and in the early morning out on the 
farm. There were a number of chickens on board 
and each rooster seemed obliged to salute the dawn 
with a fanfare of crowing. They belonged to the 
governor and were going out to East Africa to 
found a colony of chickens. Some day, years hence, 
the proud descendents of these chickens will boast 
